Before the week ended she had confided her problem to Grace and the two girls discussed the subject long and earnestly.

Yet despite such friendly counsel as Grace felt privileged to give, Madge could come to no definite decision.
Though five days of smiling sunshine had added immeasurably to the welfare of the devoted company, Saturday morning dawned gray and threatening.

Before breakfast was over the ominous prediction of storm was fulfilled.

Amid reverberating peals of thunder, heavy raindrops began to fall.

They were merely the prelude to a furious downpour which descended in silvery sheets, and fairly overflowed the discouraged landscape.